Re: Metering fuel simply in Progress and Tests

["Kijabe" <kijabe@worldonline.co.za>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Still <dstill@epud.net>
To: AJH <andrew.heggie@dtn.ntl.com>; <stoves@crest.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Metering fuel simply in Progress and Tests


> DEAR STOVERS,
>
> THANKS SO MUCH TO AJH AND CRISPIN FOR THE GREAT TOUR THROUGH FOR WHAT IS
FOR
> ME A RELATIVELY UNEXPLORED PATTERN OF BURNING. SINCE I'M USED TO GOING FOR
> INITIAL COMPLETE COMBUSTION IT'S ALWAYS FASCINATING TO CONTEMPLATE OTHER
> APPROACHES TO CLEAN BURNING.
>
> I AM COPYING A FRAGMENT OF THEIR CONVERSATION:
>
> >Excessive heat can be controlled of course by lighting a smaller fire and
> >feeding more fuel in every few minutes.  The briquettes were OK in that
> >regard, with 2 being added about every 15 minutes.
> >
> Which is the other way of tackling the problem as I mentioned in my
> post to Larry, in essence can we make a cheap stove that mimics the
> current pellet stoves of the developed world without using electrical
> fans and feeds or pellets that have been formed by crushing the
> biomass cellular structure at great cost in capital and electricity?
>
> DOESN'T FEEDING STICKS OF WOOD INTO THE FIRE TIP FIRST PRETTY MUCH
> ACCOMPLISH THE TASK? METERING THE FUEL BY PUSHING THE ENDS OF STICKS INTO
> THE OPEN FIRE AS THEY ARE CONSUMED EVOLVED AS A TRADITIONAL PRIMARY
> TECHNIQUE FOR COMPLETE COMBUSTION. METERING THE FUEL IN THIS MANNER INTO
AN
> INSULATED COMBUSTION CHAMBER RESULTS IN EVEN CLEANER COMBUSTION.
>
> GREAT DISCUSSION. THANKS AGAIN.
>
> BEST,
>
> DEAN
>
>
>
>
>
>
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